MDI Achieve/MatrixCare entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the assets of Right Click Software, which has an integrated marketing, financial and operational platform for assisted living facilities.

MatrixCare version 6.6.2, an EHR product from MDI Achieve, is now compliant with ONC 2014 criteria and was certified as an EHR module by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, the company announced this week.

MDI Achieve, provider of MatrixCare™, and WoundRounds®, have announced a strategic partnership. WoundRounds integration will be accomplished through MatrixCare Connections, which will formally certify the interoperability between MatrixCare and third-party systems and service organizations that are critical to providers

» GOJO Industries presented the results of a study on electronic monitoring and hand hygiene at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Conference in June. The research was on the effect of the company's SMARTLINK Activity Monitoring System at two units of an acute care facility in Texas. It found the system created a significant increase in hand hygiene compliance.

Providers using MDI Achieve's MatrixCare™ and Homecare Homebase will gain benefits that include field connection to all patient/resident information, automated documentation of services provided, secure data exchange between long-term care facilities and homecare providers, improved continuity of care and ease of coordination, and simplified and consistent capture of patient/resident data.

» A half dozen electronic health record vendors have formed a non-profit organization called the Commonwell Health Alliance. The organization's goal is to create a national infrastructure with common platforms and policies that allow medical records systems to work together — a task that has proven elusive. "Today's announcement represents an inflection point in healthcare, with key industry leaders coming together to support the delivery of a national health information exchange," said John Hammergren, chairman and CEO of McKesson Corporation. Additional partners include Cerner Corporation, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway and RelayHealth (a McKesson subsidiary).

Benedictine Health System has been awarded an e-Health Connectivity Grant from the Minnesota Department of Health, MDI Achieve announced. This grant will be used to enable data exchange between BHS Participating Organization's EHR, MatrixCare, and Epic Systems, the EHR of their hospital partner for this grant, Allina Health